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...been Papp who took her in hand, it would have been some other director. The Trelawny role was followed by a spectacular success at Manhattan's Phoenix Theater, when she played two utterly different characters on the same evening, a sexy secretary in Arthur Miller's one-act A Memory of Two Mondays, and a 170-lb. floozie in Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Playgoers were shocked to realize that they were seeing the same actress. "That sort of thing is done all the time," she says now, "but to do it on the same night was considered...
Unfortunately, that is about all that A Tale Told does make clear. Talley's Folly was a slight but charming romance, a one-act waltz for two characters. Fifth of July, which is still running on Broadway, is the hilarious but moving story of the Talleys today, with Kenneth, the inheritor of that big house, coming to terms with the fact that he left both legs behind in Viet Nam. But the newest play, which should have been the first, chronologically, just meanders, with no discernible destination. A telegram announces the death of Timmy, for instance, and Timmy...
...director has been conservative, Baryshnikov has given hints about where he will be going. Paul Taylor's Airs was a hit at the Met last week, and it seems likely that A.B.T. will try more works from this modern choreographer. Next season there will be several new one-act ballets; one or more may come from the company's Choreographic Workshop, which has commissioned ballets from six promising choreographers. Says Baryshnikov: "Sooner or later some choreographer should find a permanent place in this company...
...Lincoln Center huge banners fluttered from the balcony of the New York State Theater: NEW YORK CITY OPERA-WHERE OPERA COMES ALIVE. And so it did last week, as the City company presented new works by U.S. composers. In an evening titled "An American Trilogy," the company premiered three one-act works by two well-known New Yorkers, Stanley Silverman and Thomas Pasatieri, and a relatively unknown Middle Westerner, Jan Bach. The results were mixed, but overall the night was a success and a must for anyone interested in the state of American opera...
...surprise of the evening is Von Heute auf Morgen (From Today Until To morrow), a one-act comic opera being given its U.S. stage premiere. Schoenberg had consolidated his epochal twelve-tone system by 1923, supplanting the traditional seven-note scale with all twelve chromatic tones, which, in various intricate arrangements, became a new basis for melody and harmony. Von Heute, composed in 1929, qualifies as the first twelve-tone opera. It shows off the range of effects that are possible within such a seemingly rigid system: singable lines, comic punctuation in the orchestra, a brief pastiche of Italian lyricism...